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Volunteers with 3D printers have become an integral part of providing the Ukrainian army with important small parts and devices. Eduard, a volunteer from Kharkiv, who has been printing necessary things for the Armed Forces of Ukraine on his 3D printer for several years, shares his experience on where to start such an activity and what nuances should be taken into account.

In Web3, classic Web2 hiring methods often simply don’t work. According to the Electric Capital Developer Report 2024, over 65% of active Web3 engineers have never had experience in large corporations, and over 70% demonstrate their skills openly — through GitHub, hackathons, or DAOs. In this ecosystem, experience is not hidden behind NDAs; it lives in commits, contributions, and open repositories. Over 80% of Web3 teams work remotely or asynchronously, and the average time to accept an offer here is 4–6 days, compared to 2–3 weeks in Web2. It’s not just numbers — it’s a different pace and culture. Teams that continue to operate according to old principles with multi-level interviews, long feedback, and checking every CV item lose candidates before the final stage. In Web3, those who know how to evaluate not formalities, but code, culture, and speed win. Because it’s not “where you worked” that matters, but what you’ve created and how you think. Below, I’ll break down the six most common mistakes recruiters make when trying to hire Web3 engineers the “old way” — and what you should do differently.

Oleksa Mashchyts is a landmark figure in the Ukrainian QA community. He is currently successfully transforming many years of experience in testing and team management into educational products for his colleagues, being a mentor, as well as the founder and main ideologist of the «QA-Ukraine» community. In a conversation with him, dev.ua discussed many professional and personal issues — will automation make manual testers an «endangered species», why a QA specialist in a large outsourcer and a small studio are actually two different professions, for which testers AI will be a useful daily tool, and for whom it will take away their job, and why many switchers stubbornly deceive themselves by going into IT. In addition, Oleksa Mashchyts told why it is fundamentally important for him to be Ukrainian-speaking even in thoughts and not to cross paths with Russians at all — even good ones. About this and more — in a large interview.